If someone asks, Is anyone alive? Break, your, head, open, and, show, your, ten, ta, cle.
Kim HyesoonWhen I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but this rule existed nonetheless. Consequently, I received plenty of serious criticism.
Kim HyesoonWomen who have been disappeared by violence are howling. The voices of disappeared women are echoing. I sing with these voices.
Kim HyesoonLiving in South Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in.
Kim Hyesoon